The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1887-04-09
STOCK-BREEDING.
Feeding Little Pigs.

get sufficient supply from its dam. Many
sows have more pigs than they have teats,
hence feeding one or more becomes a ne
cessity. 1t Will be best to feed several
times day, and only little at time at
first. II the SOW is confined in the pen she
should be literally fed and with large
proportion of skim milk. When the pigs
are two weeks old they may be fed little
milk in yard adjoining the pen, where
they can eat by themselves. Throw few
handfuls of oats for the SOW. The pigs
will soon learn from her to pick up the
grains, which will be excellent for making
strong, healthy growth, and the oats are
probably the best grain feed to make the
SOW give an abundance of milk.
breaking Horses.
The horse is not, generally speaking, q
vicious beast, and in breaking colts there
is only the element of fear through ignor-
ance to overcome at first, and this is COM
parahvely an easy matter to accomplish if
the trainer maintains q uniformly kind,
firm, consistent, and confident behavior to-
wards the animal from the very start; for
We must know that it is of the utmost con-
sequence that the first handling should be
correct, as the impressions on colt, as on
other young and plastic natures" in any
most lasting, and if bad. it is next to i'm
possible by any amount of kindness after
wards entirely to efface them from the
horses memory; bat by persistently fol-
lowing the course recommended the trust
and confidence of the animal can very soon
be won. This point gained, it is an easy
task TO educate him-to make him under
stand what We want him to do, and he will
be ready to do it, provided We are reason
able and gauge his duties by his abilities
and look carefully to his natural wants.
Mastery through fear is very uncertain
kind Of mastership, and not to be depended
on in after life on the occasion of new
situations or in unexpected dilemmas, when
the animal, lacking that mistaken trust in
the humanity and intelligence of his rider
or driver, becomes bewildered and scared,
and disaster mayhap is the result, all for
the want of little of the commonest kind
of sense practiced at the beginning of the
equine career. Nine-t enths of all the
balky animals also are made so by the
vacillating and unreasonable treatment
their young lives are subjected to. Even
the obstinate mule, >" / am convinced, il
understandlngly managed from the start
would soon cease to be proverbial.
The writer has known instances land nc
doubt others have ALSO where young colts
have been harnes5ed to a carriage for the
first time with scarcely any trouble and
driven off almost as steadily and safely as
an old roadster, the only previous training
being halter breaking, and this was very
easily accomplished by the humanitarian
method of treatment and discipline.
am well aware that / have in the above
preached nothing new to most stockmen
but these general principles of morality
and utility in horse lore, merely limited al
here, appear TO be sadly overlooked and
neglected, and many horsemen are dis.
posed tboughtlessly to trust the drilling
and management of such animals to those
who comprehend their nature, needs, and
capabilities about as we'll as a hog does in.
teInational Jaw or a monkey decimal frac.
tons; and the consequence is many are
ruined or spoiled in some way that other.
wise might have become very valuable
beasts. Correspondence Iayo (Cul) In.
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